Suspense!
I was scanning in a bunch of my aunt Jean's old photos, that's her in the road, but who is the guy standing several feet behind her? Is he holding...…
Parkside Kids
I guess this is the class of 1967, for picture day I got your basic buzz cut (Dad had a flat top! And I don’t mean that in a good…
She turned out to be pretty cool
Here’s a picture of my sister Charlotte from about 1960. I was born in April of that year, I guess she didn’t realize what a babysitting burden I would become.…
The Good and Plenty incident
Many years ago, I had something happen that would henceforth be referred to as “The G&P Incident”.A good friend at work had overcome years of substance abuse problems. Not long…
Maybe I should have said “tiger”? Pictionary fun
We have been sort of confined to quarters by bad weather, so to keep from going all REDRUM! we have been playing Pictionary. Now, every time we open the Pictionary…
Tune the UHF channel for your vicinity
Teresa’s maternal grandparents living in Renton, Washington, in 1957. I would bet that this was taken late on a Saturday afternoon, before some kind of lodge meeting. Note the extra…
My sister’s bees barf tasty honey.
My sister and her husband live in Oregon and raise bees. Not sure about their marketing strategy. I do want to buy a t-shirt, so that’s a good sign, I…
A cautionary tale about shelves over toilets
We make mistakes, we are human. For example, the mustard colored paint in the tiny upstairs bathroom. That’s nothing. See that shelf behind Teresa’s head? All of that, ALL of…
SNAPSHOT: Daphne on the phone already
I guess we took Daphne in for a photo shoot at Sears or whatever in maybe 1991? Her typical sunny attitude shows through!
Reading is FUNdamental. Also, the TV was broken.
Here’s my mother reading to my sister Evelyn, who is obviously not paying attention. These days, Evelyn routinely beats me at Scrabble, so I guess some of it penetrated her…